52 COTTON 
cleans the cotton by traversing the full length of each spindle. This 
stripping wheel is better termed a slotted wheel which revolves rapidly 
in the opposite direction to that which the spindle or picking fingers are 
traveling; and after clearing the cotton from the fingers, it is carried 
up to a point where a set of doffer wheels clears the slotted wheel of its 
load of cotton, throwing the same into a basket which rides on the rear 
of the machine. The machine weighs about 1200 pounds, has a raising 
and lowering device upon it which is essential in getting in and out of 
the cotton field as well as in turning around.”’ 
